Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Jim Larson
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 05:08:58

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:

> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:Xns96D1D5CDF533A3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
> 
>> weirdwolf wrote:
>> 
>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
>>> news:Xns96D1D42B85A253v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
>>> 
>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>> news:Xns96D1D280616A43v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in 
>>>>>>> news:Xns96D1D1937F4F93v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>>> news:Xns96D1D0A3877A93v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in 
>>>>>>>>>>> news:Xns96D1CBE8021173v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18:
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@snurcher.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>>>>>>> news:Xns96D1DC47D5B4Endtcm@ 68.1.17.6:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> news:Xns96D1C5F8270393v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> news:Xns96D1C1C6CA6503v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It's growing on me.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Favorite scenes in 2 & 3:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a) Titus Pullo explaining women to Lucius Vorenus.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> b) Atia working out the order of suicide as the gates
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> are about to be broken down.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Oh, and mmmmmmmmmNiobemmmmmmmm
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Did you miss the whole Rome thread we started yesterday
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or is this a cunning plan to avoid my terrible Virgil
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> based pun? 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (Mostly ignored, not having watched the episodes yet.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> What Virgil based pun?) 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It was a reply to Nicks question of why they don't speak
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Roman. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>  Go on, go and read the thread and you'll see just how 
>>>>>>> embaressed
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>  I am 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> about it
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>  Ted
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Is that what that was?  You could take lessons on being
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dumb from me. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> My first thought then was another pun on the lines of.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>  Ee trust can teach me how to be as dumb as a Roman.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>  Ted
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> (Was the other pun as lame as that one?)
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> ((What rhymes with Tarquinius Superbus?))
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Well seeming as nobody else is going to ask..<sigh>
>>>>>>>>>>> What rhymes with Tarquinius Superbus?
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> I don't know. I was trying to come up with a counter-pun to Ee
>>>>>>>>>> trust can. 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> (T.S. = last of the traditional Etruscan kings? Mythical rape
>>>>>>>>>> of Lucrecia by Tarquinius Sextus? Overthrow by the Brutii?
>>>>>>>>>> Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?) 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> It's not as funny if you have to explain it :-|
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> D'oh!
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Gotcha. I'm sorry I couldn't resist.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On the subject of Rome, am I supposed to interpret that last scene
>>>>>> as Titus Pullo trying to make off with the treasury? Because that
>>>>>> would totally rock in a non-historical but amusing way.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Well lets see, babe, check, nifty wheels, check, oodles of cash,
>>>>> check. 
>>>>>  All he needed was a flash weapon that could make things explode
>>>>>  and a 
>>>>> swinging batchelor villa and he was set for life.
>>>>>                
>>>> 
>>>> Oooh...the biggest ballista of all time...(alas, no trebuchets)
>>> 
>>>  Strangely enough I was thinking of a magna ballista as well. Hmm if
>>>  it 
>>> was at Pompei you could have a magna magma ballista.
>> 
>> If he decided to take his money and settle in Herculaneum, it could be
>> a Herculanean Magna Magma Ballista.
> 
>  Ouch and you complain about my puns!
> 
>>>> 
>>>>>> (Historical version: The idiots left all the money behind.)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Well they did think that they were going back. On a side note to
>>>>> this, considering the amount of gold back into a box that large the
>>>>> soldiers didn't seem to have much trouble shifting them around.
>>>> 
>>>> They were men. Manly men. Manly men doing manly things in a manly
>>>> manner. 
>>> 
>>>  The guy who did the fight scenes held a boot camp for the extras, a
>>>  load 
>>> dropped out. They slept together,(I mean in communally in a tent not 
>>> together, although actors and roman soldiers.. so maybe I was
>>> correct,) and weren't allowed things like mobile phones.
>> 
>> Because, as we all know, Roman conscripts were required to surrender
>> their mobile phones before joining the legions.
>> 
> 
> Well Vercingetorix did have that annoying crazy frog thing going all the 
> time.

(Should it worry me that I know exactly who Vercingetorix was but have no 
idea what the "crazy frog thing" refers to?)

-- 
Jim

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